Developer Productivity Engineer, Hightouch
$180-320k
+ Equity
AI platform for marketers
Open for applications
AI platform for marketers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-320k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the best customer data technology in the world available to every enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- You are an engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers
- You’re motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment
- You’ve driven significant improvement in the productivity of a 50+ person development team by making high-leverage changes to their build/test/deploy processes
- While you likely have some infra chops, this is not an infra role: you have strong development fundamentals and are comfortable driving framework-level improvements across multiple teams
- You’ve been a member of a developer-productivity team/function for an outstanding development team
- You’ve organically become “the build person” at a fast-growing startup and helped bring order to chaos
- You’ve personally delivered code that has improved cross-team metrics related to developer productivity (e.g., DORA metrics, coverage, etc)
- You know how to curl jobapi.hightouchdata.com on port 13784 and have followed those instructions before applying. It'll only take a minute!
- In addition to any of the above, we’re looking for someone who can dive into feature code, including complicated backend code, as needed
What the job involves
- We are looking for a developer productivity engineer to take responsibility for our monorepo and the “path to production” for over 50 engineers pushing over 75 commits a day with continuous deployment to production
- This presents an exciting challenge where you can apply your expertise in helping teams ship fast and safe to meaningfully improve the productivity of our engineering team
- This role also provides a unique opportunity to work on a multi-cloud and multi-region infrastructure that supports a global customer base
- Our monorepo is primarily Javascript/Typescript with some Go and Python
- While the primary responsibility of this job is developer productivity, to fit in with the team and be productive in our codebase generally, strong computer science and development fundamentals will be required
- As part of your onboarding, you’ll spend significant time writing and delivering features to gain empathy for the current dev flow
- We believe in enabling our engineers to do their best work for our customers by giving them extremely high levels of ownership and autonomy
- This comes in different forms: you will own and deliver projects from start to finish, you will work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling problems, and you will have a lot of influence over what we work on as a team and company
- Own the build: You’ll be the single threaded owner for the build/test/deploy of our software and how each team fits into it
- Monorepo productivity: Detangle our build/test/deploy patterns so teams can move fast and not block each other. Investigate/implement a tool like turbo repo to speed builds and separate concerns
- Drive excellence in testing: We need to improve our top-down and team-level views into test coverage + support an ever growing matrix of data sources, data destinations, and enrichment patterns. An excellent engineer in this role will be able to “hold up a mirror” to our dev teams, helping each team understand where they have gaps
- Multi-Region and Multi-Cloud: Supporting our multi-region and multi-cloud backend, including extending it to launch Hightouch on in new regions to support data residency requirements of our global customer base
- Operational excellence: Support an increase in our ability to catch issues before they reach production and respond quickly if they do
Application process
- Our goal with the interview process is to balance speed with giving both parties opportunities to assess whether there is a strong mutual fit
- We will ask you questions, but we want you to ask us questions
- Our technical interviews focus on how you design systems because we believe this is the best way for us to see how you work and for you to see how we collaborate
- We don’t ask you to write code to solve technical brainteasers that don’t appear in your day to day job
- Recruiter Screen: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
- System Design Screen: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end
- Developer Productivity Skills Interview: We’ll dive into your experience making teams productive through a discussion of past projects and tooling you've used
- Hiring Manager Interview: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles
- System Design Interview: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical
Our take
With the growing need to combine data sources, along with the rise of cloud computing, demand for effective data integration tools and services has been on the rise. Hightouch provides a composable customer data platform to serve innovative marketers, alongside AI-powered tools for marketing.
Hightouch's platform helps marketers to build audiences and customer identities, collect and synch data, and analyse campaigns. LLM-based agents can be deployed to help streamline marketing, and the platform also supports AI decisioning. This comprehensive suite enables Hightouch to serve a range of businesses such as Spotify, Docusign, Warner Music Group, Grammarly and Autotrader.
Through development and acquisitions, such as of Workbase and Whatis, Hightouch has expanded steadily over the years. So long as it continues to enhance its capabilities and provide seamless data activation for its growing customer base, the company should have a bright future ahead of it.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$38m
LATE VC
Total funding: $172.4m
Company benefits
- Hub & Remote friendly: Join our global team, either remotely or in one of our four in-person hubs. For those near a hub, enjoy complimentary lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Flexible PTO: Downtime is just as important as on time and your teammates will support you while you relax and recharge
- Core benefits: For full-time US-based employees, we cover all health benefit premiums, 80% for dependents, and life insurance
- Parental leave: We value and support the family planning process. We provide up to 16 weeks for parents
- Professional development: We support employees for all learning resources needed to grow in their role (classes, books, conferences, etc)
- Connectivity: We offer a $50 per month cell-phone or wifi connectivity stipend to all employees
- Commuter: Commuter benefits of $50 are offered to both employees who come into the offices and to remote workers working outside of their home
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tejas Manohar
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)A Software Engineer with experience in lead roles at Lottery.com and Segment. Co-founded Hightouch in 2019.
Josh Curl
(CTO & Co-Founder)Significant Software Engineering experience at Rancher Labs and Segment. Co-founded Deviceplane in 2019 before co-founding Hightouch.
Kashish Gupta
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as a Product Manager for LYNK in 2016. Founded Mama's Cookin' in 2015 before co-founding Hightouch in 2019.
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